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No. 367,258. PatentedJuly 26, 1887.

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JOHNSTON CROZIER VV'ILEY, OF SIDNEY, OHIO, ASSIGNOR OF ONE HALF TO GEORGE C. HUTCHISON, `OF SAME PLACE.

GATE.

' SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 367,258, dated July 26, 1887. Application filed May 17, |887. Serial No. 239,514. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it' known that I, JOHNSTON CRozrER WILEY, a citizen ofthe United States, and a resident of Sidney, in the county of Shelby and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Gates; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled inthe art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference beinghad to theaccoinpanyingdrawings,which form apart of this specification, andin which'- Figure 1 is a perspective view of my iinproved gate. Fig. 2 is a front View of the gate and its posts. `Fig. 3 is a perspective view, seen from below, ofthe upper end ofthe hingepost, the hinge stile ofthe gate, and of the operating-lever. Fig. 4 is an edge view of the gate seen from the hinge edge, and Fig.v 5 is a longitudinal vertical sectional view of the gate.

, Similar numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the iigures.

My invention has relation to that ,class of gates in which the upper end of the stile, at

the hinge edge of the gate, is pivoted in the inner end of a lever pivoted upon the top of the hinge-post, and having means for tilting it by drawing suitable handles at the side of the roadway, at both sides. of thegate and at a distance from the sanne; and it consists in the improved construction and combination of parts of such a gate, as hereinafter more fully described and claimed. p

In the accompanying drawings, the numeral 1 indicates the hinge-stile, and 2 the latch-stile, of the gate, and these stiles are formed upon their inner faces with transverse notches or `mortises 3, into. which the ends of the rails 4 vthe lower outer corner of the gate in the lower end of'the'latch'stile, while their inner ends are inserted through perforations 11 in the lower corners of a triangularplate, 12, upon the hinge-stile, and have nuts 13 upon ltheir screw-threaded ends, bearing against theplate, andthis plate is provided with a perforation, 14, at its upper corner, having the screwthreaded cnd of a rod, 15, inserted throughV it andthe stile, having a nut, 16, bearing against the plate, the said rod extending along the top of the upper rail of the gate and having its outer end secured in the latch-stile of the gate.

The hinge-post 17 is provided at its lower end with a common hook or pintle, 18, upon which a common eye, 19, upon the lower end ofthe hingestileis pivoted, and at the upper end of the hingeposta bracket, 20, is secured by means of a bolt, 2l, passing into the post through atransverseslot, 22, in the lower portion ofthe bracket.

The upper horizontal]y-projecting portion of the bracket is formed with a longitudinal slot, 23, within which the lower nutted end of a bolt, 24, is adjustablysecured, and the at arm 25 of a lever, 26, is pivoted upon this bolt, having a vertical bolt, 28, at the top of the hingestile of the gate, pivoted in its end, while the other end is formed into a semicircular frame, 29, having its periphery grooved.

A chain, 30, is secured at its middle to the middle of the-grooved periphery of the frame, and rods 31 are securedl to the ends of the chain, and have chains 32 at their ends, which chains pass over pulleys 33, supported from brackets 34 upon posts 35, and have weights 36suspended from their ends, forming han,- dles, as well as serving to hold the chains taut. The main latch-posti37 is secured upon the opposite side of the roadway to the hinge-post,

Y and has a niortise, 38, having beveled sides 39,

of the mortise in the latelrpost, and thereupon throwing the center of gravity toward that side of the gate, causing the gate to be tilted to thatsde. The lateh will now engage the inortise in the side latch-post at the side to which the gate swings, which will be the side oppo` site to the side from which the chain was pulled; and. when the vehicle or passenger has passed through the gate it may again be closed by pulling the chain at the post which/'the ve` hiele or passenger will now pass, this operation being similar to the operation in gates of this class.

Tile latch will at all times spring into the mortise ot' the latelrpost when coming opposite to the same, being normally forced ont by its spring.

It will be seen that by having thejoinls between the rails and the stiles, as described, formed with tenons and fitting the tenons in the perforations and the ends ot' the rails in the transverse notches in the stiles, the gatepanel will not be liable to sag, and the diagonal brace-rods having their nutted ends in the lower perforations in the triangular plate, and the upper horizontal brace-rod havingits screw-threaded and nntted end fitting in the upper perforation, the said rods maybe tightened np against each other bythe nuts, drawing the upper portion of the gate together, while at the same time drawing the lower por` tion of the gate upward and inward7 so that all sagging of the gate will be entirely pre-` vented or may be entirely remedied.

By having the longitudinal slot in the hor zontal portion of the bracket supporting the upper pivot of the gate and the transverse slot in the lower portion ofthe bracket the bracket may be adjusted to take up any slight sagging of the hinge-post, the bracket being adjusted to the opposite side ofthe sag ofthe post, if the post sags in a plane parallel to the roadway, while the pivotal bolt of the lever may be adjusted if the post should sag transverse to the roadway.

Having thus described my invent-ion, I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the 'United States In a gate, the combination ofthe hinge-post, a hraekethaving a transverse slot at its lower end secured upon a bolt in the side of the post and having a longitudinal slot in its horizontal portion, a lever fulorumed upon a bolt se cured adjustably in the longitudinal slot of the bracket and having a semicireular frame at one end formed with a groove, and a perl'ora- 1 tion in its otherend, a gate-panel hinged upon a pintle at the lower end ot' the hinge-post and having a pivot at the upper end of the hinge end pivoted in the perforated end ofthe lever, and chains secured to the middle ofthe sexnieirenlar frame and passing over suitable supports at the side of the roadway, at both sides of the gato, as and for the purpose shown and set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereunto affixed my signature in presence ol` two witnesses.

JOHNSTON GROZIER VILEY. Witnesses:

J. C. RoYoN,

G. R. Hass. 

